National Trail Raceway celebrates 50 years of diversity

1:30 AM,
May 1, 2014

Bob Motz prepares to blast off in his jet semi during the 2013 Night of Thunder at National Trail Raceway

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It had been raining for three consecutive days but as Mike Fornataro looked out across the spacious grounds of National Trail Raceway on Wednesday, he could only smile.

The parking lot already was starting to fill up with campers for this weekend's Northern Class Nationals, which hadn't been to the popular quarter-mile drag strip in 10 years.

"They actually started arriving Sunday," said Fornataro, who has taken over as track manager after several years as sales and marketing manager. "They were calling ahead for hotel rooms. They could have taken it anywhere else, but they chose here." ...